The Future of the Environment
Ecological Economics and Technological Change
Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange
Reviews and Awards
"This study, the latest step in a cumulative endeavor of great importance, provides a conceptual and empirical framework for ecological economics to build alternative visions of the future....The book contributes to positive economics by showing how a system can work in the future in light of the constraints under which it operates."--Choice "An innovative and illuminating application of input-output techniques to environmental issues. The book takes a critical step translating generalities about the concept of sustainable growth into a subject amenable to effective analysis."--William J. Baumol, New York University
"The Future of the Environment represents the latest step in a cumulative endeavor of great import. The World Input-Output Model was pioneered by Wassily Leontief in the 1970s; its development continues at the institute founded by Leontief, now directed by Duchin. The progressive refinement of this demanding methodology, presented here in the form of scenario analysis, represents the best available approach for understanding and evaluating different paths into the future."--Neva Goodwin, Tufts University
"The book will become a landmark contribution to ecological economics. It poses insightful and far-reaching questions, yet is grounded firmly in a rigorous theoretical and empirical framework. These qualities are distinctly absent from many environmental analyses and prescriptions for 'sustainable development'."--Cutler J. Cleveland, Boston University